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where and how do I dispose of old laptop

  • 23-10-2008 11:26am
    #1
    Aved
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭


    I'm buying a new laptop next week and was just wonderingn where do I bring my old laptop to be disposed of properly.


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  • #2
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,816 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    does it work? you might get a few quid on ebay for it, somebody could be stuck for a screen or keyboard etc...


  • #3
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    Put it on adverts.ie free section. It'll be of some use to someone I guess either as a laptop if it's working or for parts.


  • #4
    Aved
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Aved


    No t's completely knackered and broken . It's had problems with the keyboard not working propery, doing things of it's own accord, hardly any memory (I can't open certain documents for college, the screen would randomly go blank and shut down and I think limewire caused problems even when I removed the software. Now it won't turn on it just goes on a loop displaying the boot logo again and again. I just want to get rid of it and buy another one as I've had problems with it from the start


  • #5
    Nichololas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    Post the specs? Even if some parts aren't working the rest can be cannibalised.


  • #6
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    I fix up laptops on behalf of a charity who ship them out to Nairobi in Kenya and Lusaka in Zambia where they are distributed to local teacher training colleges. I'd probably be able to fix up your old laptop if you'd like to donate it?

    Btw- its a registered charity called "Helping Hands".

    Cheers,

    S.


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  • #7
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,162 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    The place you are buying it can recycle it for you (legally they have to).


  • #8
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,348 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Aved wrote: »
    No t's completely knackered and broken . It's had problems with the keyboard not working propery, doing things of it's own accord, hardly any memory (I can't open certain documents for college, the screen would randomly go blank and shut down and I think limewire caused problems even when I removed the software. Now it won't turn on it just goes on a loop displaying the boot logo again and again. I just want to get rid of it and buy another one as I've had problems with it from the start

    Sounds software related. You can run Linux on even the crapiest machines. If its booting then there's hope.

    Don't bin it, you'd be surprised that someone somewhere could make use of it.


  • #9
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,115 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    If in Dublin, see dublinwaste.ie - they have a listing service for stuff you're giving away, and details of recycling centres.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #10
    Soundman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭Soundman


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    The place you are buying it can recycle it for you (legally they have to).

    This.

    You are paying the PRF on the new laptop for this service after all.


  • #11
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Before you dispose of your Laptop remove the hard drive place it in an external 2 1/2" USB caddy and format it. A formatted HDD from an old computer can be used as additional storage space for your new laptop if placed in a caddy.

    If you are unable to do this just smash the hard driive to pieces with a hammer. The reason for this is that you may have personal documents, files, cookies, passwords etc etc that you may not want to get into the wrong hands.

    Although your Laptop may looked foooked its internal components such as the HDD may be in perfect working order.


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  • #12
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    If you donate the laptop to me for Africa- it gets a DDO grade 7 sweep wipe of the hard-drive (which actually kills about 1 in 12 or 14 hard drives in older laptops, but better safe than sorry). You cannot afford to be too careful with your data!

    S.


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